Composition for cleaning and polishing.



UNiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP LEVI, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

COMPOSITION FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,556, dated February 18, 1902.

Application filed October 2 1, 1901.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP LEVI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented and discovered a new and useful composition of matter to be used in the polishing and cleansing of all kinds of furniture and woods used in furniture, musical instruments, and flooring and finishing woods of all kinds in all buildings and all kinds of wood and woodwork susceptible of receiving and taking a polish, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a compound for cleaning and polishing furniture and woodwork, and particularly to a liquid compound of a new composition.

The object of this invention is to provide in one and the same compound a' cleaner and polisher for renovating, cleaning, and polishing furniture and woodwork, and particularly fine articles of furniture demanding a high finish.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cleaning and polishing liquid compound of such composition that less liquid is required, less time is necessary in cleaning and polishing, with improved results attained thereby over any other polishing compound known to me.

In carrying out myinvention I em ploy paraffin-oil, refined carbon or coal oil, butter of antimony, and distilled water, thoroughly mixed with a suitable coloring and perfume. These ingredients are combined in the following proportions stated, viz: distilled water, fourteen gallons; parafiin-oil, (25 gravity, Baum,) eighty gallons; coal-oil or refined carbon-oil, (150 fire-test proof, 46 to 48 gravity, Baum,) six gallons; butter of antimony, two pounds. These ingredients are thoroughly mingled by agitation, and then is added a coloring and a perfume consisting of the following ingredients in the proportions stated, viz: alkanet-root, (coloring,) ten pounds; oil of mirbane, (perfume,) as de- Serial No- 79,80l. (N0 specimens.)

sired. The compound is then strained and bottled ready for use.

In using the compound as above described there is no cleaning or other treatment of the furniture or other object prior to applying the compound. A cloth is simply dampened with the liquid or compound and rubbed briskly over the object without any subsequent operations or treatments, and such object will be found thereafter to possess a clean dry polish of high luster, free from gum or oil, and with no odor of the oils.

The element of coal-oil in the compound thins the paraffin-oil and cuts and thins the whole composition. The element of water when mixed with the other ingredients forms a perfect cleaner, and after the application a surface is produced of superior gloss of great durability.

Distilled water is employed, because all foreign matter is eliminated by distillation, and as it is important that the compound should be as clean and pure as possible ordinary water will not produce the same results.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. The herein described composition of matter, consisting of distilled water, paraffinoil, coal-oil, butter of antimony, and a coloring of alkanet-root, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The herein described composition of matter, consisting of distilled water fourteen gallons, paraffin-oil eighty gallons, coal or refined carbon oil six gallons, butter of antimony two pounds, alkanet-root ten pounds, and oil of mirbane as desired, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub scribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP LEVI. Witnesses:

J. G. PARKER, ED. M. SHIRLEY. 

